{"id":12751,"date":"2017-07-26T07:37:07","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T07:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revoscience.com\/en\/?p=12751"},"modified":"2017-07-26T07:37:07","modified_gmt":"2017-07-26T07:37:07","slug":"new-strategy-design-mechano-responsive-luminescent-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/new-strategy-design-mechano-responsive-luminescent-materials\/","title":{"rendered":"New strategy to design mechano-responsive luminescent materials"},"content":{"rendered":"

Crystals made from gold complexes change color as they change structure from \u201cchiral\u201d to \u201cachiral\u201d when ground.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"\u201cSmart\u201d materials that change color in response to a mechanical stimulus have a broad range of applications such as creating pressure-sensitive sensors and packaging that can detect tampering.<\/span><\/p>\n

Researchers at Hokkaido University have now designed a novel \u201cmechano-responsive luminescent material\u201d using a gold and isocyanide complex, which includes two bonded rings of carbon and hydrogen atoms.<\/span><\/p>\n

When the material is first prepared, it is a viscous oil. The oil emits an orange color under ultraviolet irradiation. When the oil is pricked with a needle, however, it randomly crystallizes either into \u201cchiral\u201d yellow crystals that emit green light or into \u201cachiral\u201d whitish-grey crystals that emit bluish-green light.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"A crystal is chiral if the molecules are aligned in a way it cannot be superimposed onto its mirror image. This makes your left and right hands chiral, for example, while a soda pop can would be achiral.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The oil also transformed either into chiral or achiral crystals when in contact with small pieces of each crystal respectively. Furthermore, when ultrasonic was applied to the oil for 20 minutes, it turned into a powder of the achiral crystals.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Remarkably, grinding chiral crystals caused them to transition into achiral crystals while simultaneously changing their emission properties. \u201cThis is the first proof that the chiral-to-achiral phase transition caused by a mechanical stimulus could alter emission properties,\u201d says Hajime Ito, the corresponding author of the study published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. \u201cAchiral crystals are generally more stable than chiral crystals, known as Wallach\u2019s Rule. This makes the chiral-to-achiral transition very reasonable.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

This is the first such example of this kind of material, they say, and their results indicate that the dynamic change between the two crystal phases may be a promising strategy to design universal mechano-responsive functional materials. \u201cBy targeting molecules that can form both chiral and achiral crystals and follow Wallach\u2019s Rule, we might be able to develop mechano-responsible materials more strategically and efficiently,\u201d Ito added.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Crystals made from gold complexes change color as they change structure from \u201cchiral\u201d to \u201cachiral\u201d when ground. \u201cSmart\u201d materials that change color in response to a mechanical stimulus have a broad range of applications such as creating pressure-sensitive sensors and packaging that can detect tampering. Researchers at Hokkaido University have now designed a novel \u201cmechano-responsive […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":12752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/4799.png",535,354,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/4799-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/4799-300x199.png",300,199,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/4799.png",535,354,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/4799.png",535,354,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/4799.png",535,354,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/4799.png",535,354,false],"ultp_layout_landscape_large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/4799.png",535,354,false],"ultp_layout_landscape":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/4799.png",535,354,false],"ultp_layout_portrait":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/4799.png",535,354,false],"ultp_layout_square":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/4799.png",535,354,false],"newspaper-x-single-post":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/4799.png",535,354,false],"newspaper-x-recent-post-big":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/4799.png",535,354,false],"newspaper-x-recent-post-list-image":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/4799.png",95,63,false],"web-stories-poster-portrait":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/4799.png",535,354,false],"web-stories-publisher-logo":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/4799.png",96,64,false],"web-stories-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/4799.png",150,99,false]},"author_info":{"info":["Amrita Tuladhar"]},"category_info":"Research<\/a>","tag_info":"Research","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}